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...more systematic understanding of undergraduate issues,” she said.The president-elect left yesterday’s meeting with a bound history of the establishment of the first College scholarship given by Ann Radcliffe, the woman whose name graces the institute Faust now leads. The gift, Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said, would set a theme of support for undergraduates as Faust prepares to move into Mass. Hall on July 1. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
More than a week after the Undergraduate Council (UC) established an e-mail hotline for student feedback on teaching fellow (TF) performance, TFs, administrators, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning have been reluctant to fully endorse the program. UC president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Bok Center Director James Wilkinson have discussed the possibility of the Center providing training for the undergraduate board charged with synthesizing and acting on student feedback. The Center oversees TF training and reform. In a swift response to a Feb. 14 Crimson op-ed co-authored by Petersen stating...
...many toes in hastily rolling out the new hotline, and there is much left to be done if the hotline is to become a useful tool for improving pedagogy at the College. The hotline, launched last week, was a top campaign promise of newly-minted UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Instead of pushing the idea through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ committee system, which often moves at a glacial pace, Petersen and Sundquist led the UC in acting unilaterally. They created a Harvard...
...first two weeks for Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 have gone according to schedule. In a Harvard version of a “first hundred days” blitz, Petersen and Sundquist have already fulfilled one of their 56 campaign promises and implemented one of the best ideas put forth by Crimson editors Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 and Adam Goldenberg ’08, their chief rivals in last December’s presidential election. And Petersen and Sunquist are planning...
...particular, the pointed grumbling of Mather representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 about the allegedly inflated per capita funding for Dudley House residents forced Joshua G. Allen ’09 to ask Petersen to call the meeting to order...